Woodstock: 3 Days That Changed Everything (Full Documentary) | Amplified
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- Woodstock started as a music festival but became something more. Its mix of music & ideals resonate now more than ever.
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I was 16 at woodstock, We hitchhiked from Albany with a couple of Blonde girls. By the time I got there, the gates were down, i still have the tickets.
That's amazing. Never sell them.
@@meghanmisaliarby the time you left they were dirty blonde lol
@@Dancerlayla-z6g wrong person.
@@meghanmisaliar sorry
The older I get the more I realize that the message of Woodstock of Love and Peace is the hope of the World! I am 82. What a wonderful video.
Lots of drugs will do that to you.
People like you yourself need to be told something, which is that Woodstock was not about Peace and Love, because there was violence alot of recreational drug use, there were alot of sexual assaults, and there were riots. You cannot tell me that with all of the loud music that was played at deafening levels proves that there is no way that it was all about Peace and Love, which was all about this entire line of logic that said if it feels good do it, and that proves what you said is all a lie! Now everything that you have claimed proves you are all about telling other people that this was something that was peaceful, and the truth is that this whole line of logic that says if it feels good do it is destructive!
@@rogerhackler223 lol, there were no riots at Woodstock 1969. Maybe you’re thinking of the 1999 version. There were some arrests because some few out of the 500,000 didn’t know how to behave. That’s normal in a huge crowd. You seem to be missing the whole message of the time and era of Woodstock. They were there to be different from common culture and mostly they succeeded.
The woodstock generation put Trump in office in 2016.
I was there. No shooting or fighting. We thought we changed the world. We were so idealistic. I knew guys who came back from Vietnam and joined the peace movement. I was not high at Woodstock. It was about the music. Funny now shrinks are using psychedelics to cure people. Lol. I didn't see one argument. The locals helped feed us and gave us the peace sign. Americans were sick of the war. No one was assaulting anyone but people were swimming naked in the pond..to get the mud off!
The only things i found offensive on this short doc was the quote shown from Oprah Winfrey and mentioning Lola Palooza...I mean Oz fest was the answer to Palooza.. Winfrey and Palooza should never be mentioned in the same company with Woodstock
Agree
RIP Michael Lang 🌼🎸1/8/22
Every year this makes me feel sad missing my Woodstock friends were still here with me. I am happy to say though that we all stayed true to our hippiness
good! me too
I want to meet up with some Woodstock friends
jealous! i hope you guys had a great time. memories you’ll never forget ❤
As a Gen Z, y’all truly had one of the most beautiful generational concepts. I wish hippies would’ve lasted.
@@howtogetdisowned7478they definately still do and there's hippie festivals all the time all over the place, I go to them all the time, going to rislofest at terrapin hill in July
In 1969 I was 15. No chance to get from Maastricht in the Netherlands to Woodstock. In 1970 I've watched Woodstock in the cinema, four and a half hours of it. The best event ever. Only love. It changed my life.
Wow. That's beautiful.
HEY JOS, I WAS 11, AND WANTED TO GO BADLY.. I LIVED ABOUT 1000 MILES FROM IT.. BUT I GOT THE DVD, AND IM STILL DIGGING IT AT 65 YEARS OLD XO
I've got a DVD set and watch it regularly. It was the best event ever.
❤Did ger. to see the movie in a theatre in Tokyo.
@@juliemiller2523 Hey Julie. I've got the DVD and I watch it every year in August.
I was a punk kid at 7 in '69 and thought hippys were weird. The 50th anniversary changed my thinking by 180 degrees, and I can't get enough info, interviews, and video on the phenom that was Woodstock. It can never happen again, and it barely did then. Stars aligned perfectly...Aquarian! Gives me hope in this messed up world of 2022.
we're not gunna let it I was there at 14 for the art show the poster made it clear...our parents took us . visit the museum it's automatically amazing and the land still has shows there I took my daughter to see Ringo Star...
it was safe they were careful there were tents for people that took the wrong drugs .. somehow the pandemic messed up our world these three generations need to help ... this one, they interviewed positive event smart !°••~|\•••▪︎♡♡
hear hear ... I was there at 17 my brother three years older you're two years younger...Our mom & dad were there Dad have bought tickets based on the "words music & art fesitval...I could write more we got there the day before using back roads .. Since we had art passes we enjoyed watching the set up on top of the hill ... Friday we never left dad grabed barely of hay we set up my art double matter, no glass just think plastic.. I watched me art sturred into backpack... Share the love and susses to friends & family... Better yet see the musean revel in the fact these kids turned the weekend to a huge event... Took our daughter to the 50th festival... Ringo stole the event that day... let's make this world spin in the right direction w/ music. Thanks for your comments ••~\○
Got US'd & missed it; had to settle for Bob Hope & Jane Fonda.
I was 14 & went with my family was on of the artist presenting my art... Took our daughter to the 50th to see Ringo... It's amazing if the world could be changed with music 🎶 and these three generations of kids effected by the pandemic could help change the 🌎 would...I hope so thanks for sharing your thoughts luckly the land was saved and the musesm is there...
correction I was there at 14 my brother's we were three years apart my older & my little brother was three years younger than me ... Some day, I'll record my story at their museum... We took our daughter back for the 50th anniversary... We saw Ringo Star 🌟 and his band...
What an awesome venue to this day ••~\☆•~\▪︎•~☆▪︎
I was in high school my room mate went and asked me to go but I was too young to understand but boy did I love the event that changed this country!
you must have been in prep school if you had a room mate
What a great documentary .. I cant help but feel sad that its never going to happen like this ever again.. Music has changed and not for the better sorry to say. People have changed and are not as loving. Who knows maybe things will change for the better.. Peace... Woodstock 69 for ever Thanks for the insperation
You cant say its never going to happen ever again and then say maybe it will in order for it to change people have to be positive and say it will change no if ands or buts
There will never be another Generation like ours......60's, Woodstock, Peace, Love, and Rock an Roll! ✌👍🏻🙏🌹
Don’t give up to quickly.
I’m producing a show in New Mexico called Toke Stock Live.
It’s set to go on the air in September, 22, 2022.
Coachella every year now. Whole families go.
@Michael Jurek music has gotten better than Limp Bizkit.
I'm 62 and a teacher. I end every class by saying, "Peace and love to you all." And I mean it.
Right on!
@Chris Davies...Far out man! I say something very similar. To us OG's, these words and symbols carry a powerful meaning. I pray the younger generation will come to understand the power of such words and actions. Thanks for sharing and be safe 🙏 ☮️
even fake azz hippies ...
I Loved every moment of this!
Happy Hippie FriYey to All of you Beautiful Souls ☮️ I offer you Flowers in exchange for Bullets ✌️💖🐦🎼 🌻🌹🌷🌺💐 ♥️☮️♥️✌️
Thank You Artie, and Linda Kornfeld, thank you Michael Lange. Woodstock NEVER would have happened without you, I can just imagine the three of you standing there, guestamating how many people would actually show up if you really put this thing on...Artie, and Michael were way off, Linda saw things differently... Historically. Artie lost his wife Linda, his partner, the love of his life, and just a short while later, he lost his daughter Jamie, his BEAUTIFUL daughter, and my best friend, she was only 16. I don't know how that man held it together, but he did. You're a very special man. I Love You... Thank you for making the world a much better, and beautiful place.
Thank you so much saying the tri ute to the creaters ... I was there at 14 years old w/ my two brother mom and dad ... dad bought tickets early... we got there the day before all the traffic bc I was presenting me art . we are so lucky for utube and this documentary can be shared with so many 2023. Let's not mess out let's work together to clear up this mess! °°~\○•°•○○●{...
Thank you for recognizing Linda's contributions. I've asked Artie to share more information and pictures of her, with no success. But that is his call. ☮️
they just threw a concert and got paid for it = their job ... our creator (master) Jehovah did the rest ... creepy sheople make up ANY excuse to idolize more pooping people ...
Hippies were about peace and wish that era could come back. Those were the days! 😇😇
They were troublemakers. They loved to protest and cause chaos.
A few years ago I bought an authentic in tact Woodstock ticket for $50. I have it between glass in a frame. It's one of my most cherished items that I'm leaving to one of my grandkids. I can only hope that I can impress on them the true meaning of Woodstock.
wow
I'm surprised it was so cheap.
I would have loved to have attended Woodstock…. But I was only 2 yrs old ….. but later in life I did get to attend Woodstock in my mind and through all those beautiful people who were there and through their stories , we will always keep the message of Woodstock relevant .. it still inspires a new generation today and tomorrow . PEACE ☮️ LOVE ❤️ MUSIC 🌈……..
I was there the entire 3 days. Did not pay, walked over the fences. Met numerous friends from my city and the collage in that city. So many stories to tell...
What’s the best artists you saw over the 3 days?
I was there too. I was sporting a flat top haircut and I kicked some hippie ass.
I know alot of people attended . Have you seen yourself in the Woodstock movie ?
I just watched the movie again July 6 ,.2023 my third time seeing the movie .
Peace
Collage??
Is it possible to feel nostalgia for a time I wasn't even alive yet for, it makes me emotional just watching this great event, and all the amazing artist and amazing loving people who attended!!!❤❤❤❤
Yes, and to feel sad about memories that could have been made "if only".
Yes, I feel the same way. I was born too late.
@@benmartinez8443No, you're being reminded 'of your mission" coming fast in the future.🎉
I feel that way about 99
@@benmartinez8443 me too. I always wish I could have gone to a concert like this one
There will never be another Woodstock and the headliners that played there!! R.i.p Michael lang.
What a great time in history. Except for Viet Nam. Woodstock was a way for people to express there opinion about the war. And show there could be peace. Love and music at least for a little while. I was 14 and too young to be there. But have the album and have always considered myself a Woodstock hippie, don't have long hair or do drugs anymore but still have peace and love and music in my heart. Compared to the world today, I'd go back to 69 in a minute.
@David Wang not really a liberal, but I totally agree on your view of the orange asshole. Never Trump
@David Wang Yeah because this shit in the white house now is so much better.
@David Wang
Trump is a piece of sh*t but you're forgetting all of the slimewad politicians that came before and after him, including that POS Bernie. Bet you're a Democrap aren't you? Both parties sold out completely after JFK was murdered!
@David Wang Bingo, amen and touche. I'd go back in a minute.
My heart wishes that I could have experienced it. :( My aunt was from that era, and told me when I was younger that she would tell me about her life when she was involved in the free love movement in the 60s when I was old enough, but she died from spinal cancer (the most painful kind) before I was old enough for her to tell me about it. She was such an amazing and accepting soul. Never judgmental, never mean, she was an absolute angel. She accepted people for who they are, not for what society pushes upon them. I’m still upset about how she died so young, and so painfully. (She died at only 62 years old.)
FANTASTIC HAPPENING 1969 NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN ❤
Thank God that it was video recorded! because not only was all of the bands great and sounded great.. but what Hendrix did can't ever be topped! it sounded and still sounds unbelievable!
video recorded? lol check your World Book Encyclopedia honey... how old are you?
never say never. I am guessing you are not an English major.
@@ellenr3292 I just saw a film camera on this video. Gosh, it must be all our imagination...or maybe an acid trip?
@@sharolynwells There’s a few film 🎥 cameras circulating around the festival grounds and the word is... they may not be exceptionally the best... so with a word of caution you may want to pass on that.... but it’s your trip man.
@@ellenr3292 What are you mad at?
I was there.. got drafted in November. Gone in January... MAY GOD BLESS ALL.. THANK YOU GOD FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR ME!! I WOULDN'T CHANGE MY LIFE FOR ANYTHING.. MY SON HAS BEEN 22 YRS. IN THE ARMY.. TY GOD FOR AMERICANS... MAY GOD BLESS..
Thank you for your service.
All these stoners ultimately elected Trump.
I was 13 in the summer of 1969, and was there with my older brother, Adam and his high school buddy, Steve. It was amazing.
Wow you are so dam lucky to have the experience of a life time. I hope you shared this with your kids & any grandkids that are old enough. I mean 1/2 million people loving each other & the great music,
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Stephen Stills?
Bravo, I was there as well at 14!! amazing we didn't return once the rain started after the first day.. our parents brought us my dad saw the poster it's the music & art festival!
hello... we need the courage to work together to correct the three years of the pandemic and the generations brought up w/ out hugs w/ computers hippies love flower power let's try to make it easier for them to try and thrive ... •°~\\•☆♡/... ♡☆♡\|~.. thank goodness for the utube platform. we had MTV, yes, to record the details and see and hear is amazing
Io avevo 4 anni e ovviamente non be' ho saputo nulla fino a che non sono diventata grande.Beato chi ha potuto immergersi in quei momenti magici di musica e di amore .
I believe that Woodstock began to affect consciousness to those who attended as it grew thru the volatile 60's between the conflict/ "darkness & light❤
Oh & the media reported what went on that glorious weekend fairly accurately. We could use some of that these days. Power to the people right on.
things were real bad in '69, I was in high school then. today is real bad too, still having wars, bad politicians, mass illegal immigration, poor government & officials. we need another Woodstock !!!
I went. It was a historical event for sure and everyone there felt it, as we slept in mud, ate weird stuff, made crazy friends, and kept high. The general feeling was... everyone was your brother and sister... but the bands and songs that stuck with me were those with a message of revolution, change.
You were so lucky to be a part of that!
What we do in life. Echoes in eternity. Take that moment, it's yours. How sweet that is.
Sounds dirty and gross
@@meghanmisaliar , no it was uplifting
Exactly! No violence. My daughter watched something about Woodstock, her immediate reaction was the absence of violence. If only today.....✌️ I know I won't be around to ever see anything come close to it.
and.....in 1969......there were NO gun control laws of ANY kind!!
I wanted to go to Woodstock so bad but didn't even know where it was. I was 12 yrs old at the time but from what I read it was going to be something great. This was the year I stopped listening to AM radio and started listening to FM radio. 1969 was a year of growth for me in many other ways.
Bravo I was there at 14 w/ my family the poster said music and art festival... My dad bought tickets and shocked my brother and myself our younger brother was 3 years younger... See the museum... it honors the event and keeps the history going ... concerts still happen there ... this documentary is amazing share w/ as many utube has given us the ability to make it worth it .. Neil Young info was amazing ...
Like your story . It captures those times wow switching from AM to FM.
there is still peaceful music, events, and artists like this. It might not be super mainstream but its still here today. We vibin
Great piece of history!
My generation ❤❤❤❤. My time on earth 😊😊😊😊. Glad I experienced things like Woodstock!!
I'm so glad it was well documented. Well filmed and well photographed. Had it not been, and we would have been just told about it, it probably would have ended up as one of those conspiracy theories. "Did it really happen like that?" or "Did it happen at all?"
All the strife, darkness, death, war, and division of the 1960s had to inevitably lead up to something like this. The final straw were the Manson family killings a week before. It was the manifestation of the strong desire of thousands for a peaceful and loving world. If society wasn't going to give it to them, they were going to create it themselves.
Oh it definitely happened!
A bunch of hippies rolled around in the mud fior 3 days stoned out of their gourd. Set your goals higher. They didn't have shitters, and ran out of food. They had to get sandwiches made by Nuns and distributed by the National Guard.
(The "Woodstock Generation" run much of everything now, and it should not go unnoticed everything is FUBAR)
On balance I'd have rather seen the Apollo 11 launch a few weeks prior. They had a million people show up for that. I can't think of anything more pathetic than nostalgia for something you weren't even alive for, the Woodstock mystique was a media creation for the most part.
@@tedpeterson1156 Haha! When a certain vibe of something catches on like wildfire, it's much easier to ignore the discomforts. Peace, love, and drugs are amazing medicine.✌️ 😁 Half a million people in one place living in peace and listening to music. Set my hopes and dreams for society higher than that? End world hunger. Cure cancer. The obvious. But for a general good time and good morale? The spirit of Woodstock is about as good as it gets. And the fact that it was so physically uncomfortable and the vibe was so high so many were willing to overlook those things for a few days...that's powerful.
Btw, I HAVE read stories about people who went to Woodstock and didn't like it...for all the reasons you mentioned. I read about a guy who caught a ride out of there early and had more fun smoking and singing with the van of hippies that picked him up than he had at the festival.
..Wonder how far he had to walk to find a ride on the first unblocked road.
here
I was born in January 69. Woodstock was somehow, through my ears, it changed the colours of my blood. I started on the Green Beavers weekends at 12. I nearly became a math master and muso. At age 23 I chose to raise kids on my own. Now I just want to play and love a truthful lady. I have to say when I bought the album The Songs Of A Sphycadelic Age, the one with White Rabbit and Peddles And Flowers, I found I was on the correct path. White Rabbit opened my mind. Haven't had acid for 8 years now. I communicate with animals 🕺💯🤘✌️
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I agree. Hippies are hip people. I came to Canada in '65 from Hungary. I was 9 and some months. Here, I heard many songs. Among them is Give Peace A Chance. Remember that? It seems it never goes out of style!
Hippies are troublemakers
Woodstock has become mythologized. Now, it seems bigger than it really was. I had to work that weekend so couldn't go, but all my friends did. and I'll tell you this. It was a concert with a lot of great bands. It was a weekend when people accepted each other, did a lot of drugs, and got along. However, it changed nothing. Vietnam lasted another 6 years. Young people thought they would start a new world order. They didn't. Going back to college, it was the same. The bigger world didn't accept it at all. They didn't like the hippies and Nixon was elected the year before as a backlash against Vietnam protests and hippies. It was an island, a brief respite from everything else. It attracted a certain kind of person. If you were conservative, you wouldn't have gone. If you dressed like a hippie, you were an outcast in your small town. I walked int a bar with hair over my ears, but otherwise dressed conservatively. Everyone in the bar turned around and told me and my friends to "get out". That was the real world in 1969.
You are so correct.. I was 11 at the time..and saw what was going on
I was 18 years old 🇺🇲 🖤
“however it changed nothing-“ lol, that’s a lie. look at the bigger picture. there’s MANY music festivals now and since BECAUSE of this festival. may have not changed anything for you (which clearly it wasn’t supposed to lmao) but within music and the industry - it set the standard. everybody knows that.
Nothing is free, how many different types of acid were passed around...... yeah big government operation with the true results of this operation hidden from public view...most of the bans we're in on it and those who began to think differently were conveniently killed...thus the 27 club.....I used to look at it through color glasses perhaps I should have stayed that way. Because now it just makes me mad.
@@silentmozart What was better for you in 1970 than it was in 69 ?
Oh yeah.... you weren’t there.
Happy 52th anniversary, Woodstock Nation!
I'm a 60's kid and though I was born and brought up in India, Calcutta, Flower Power or the Hippie culture made its way to us too. When I fell in love with music in my teens, I heard most of the acts that had played at Woodstock '69. I watched the Director's Cut Woodstock movie when I was in my early 30s. There will not be another gathering like that one. Ever. And it's true that it changed the world. Thanks for this wonderful documentary. There is something to be said for the freedom of spirit that marked the 60s and 70s and I was reminded of that.
Thank you for your share , I'm also a flower 🌷 child I was born in 1965 and I'm in love with the late 1960s music and movies too.
I just love this video brings me back to a time in life that was much more sweeter
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Yeah, the thing about Woodstock was that it was a Happening; not a trend. It didn't have time to be a trend, at least for some of us. There was a recognition at the time for me, a 20 year old, wondering what was happening, and finding out that when it did happen, it was through music. It helped to be a musician. Woodstock had many images that have recurred over the years. The most noteworthy to me was a 4th of July celebration at Gasworks Park in Seattle 10 years ago. I like to play publicly from time-to-time, and so i had my violin case in hand over there and at the entrance there were police standing at a table inspecting bags and stuff. So when i went through, one cop asked me, "What's in there?", pointing at the case. And i said, laughing, "a violin". And he said, "Open it." And i said, "If I open it, I play it", And played, "The Star Spangled Banner", Jimi style. The cops appreciated it. Just as Jimi played so masterfully for that be-draggled but somehow spangled banner crowd remnant at Woodstock. His contract was to play last. And he did, inspiring a whole generation of musicians, in a time with certain lights too bright to last long.
greatest gathering of this realm and this sheople worshippers one of the agenda puppets and "his" little political plug ...
Im a flower 🌷💞 child and was born in 1965 and im so in love with the late 1960s music and the Woodstock era, there will never be another Woodstock, ever. It changed the world 🌍 and helped people through Vietnam. Thanks for posting this beautiful piece of our history
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If you were born in 65 you passed the hippie era. It stopped in the early 70’s
isnt coachella the new woodstock?
@@JoshuaJohnsOfficalChannelnot really. They think they are though. Only ppl with money can go to Coachella
You're not a flower child. Stop it
As a grad student, I had planned with my young son and wife to do a 'cheap' camping trip to lAke Champlaign and stop over at this radio-advertised "family-picnic-with-music-in-the-trees" thing at Woodstock. So we drove up in our Robins-egg blue VW Beetle with golden suns my son had pasted on it. We got 'stuck' at Woodstock from Friday dusk till Sunday afternnoon - it was still easy to drive in , but we were at the end of the line driving out. We heard every music note at Woodstock, but, being in a tent a quarter mile from the actual grounds, we saw only the stage lights. Nevertheless, the community vibe was palpable and a righteous experience. Hendrix's Sunday morning "Star Spangled Banner" still 'shivers me bones'. I came away from 'Woodstock' with renewed faith in humanity - when the shit really gets heavy, I have no doubt the good in everybody will burst forth. (Note: in 1970, taking a break from a conference in Manhattan, I took a lunch break with a meditative stroll in Central Park eating an ice cream, when I saw this guy sitting alone on a park bench all hunched over and sobbing. For some reason, I stopped, sat down next to him and offered him a bite of ice cream...maybe just to stop his misery or something...so we (he) began to tell me of his misery - he was one of the Woodstock producers, they had sunk a lot of theirs and others' money into the festival, and he didn't expect to get them and him out of debt...he would lose his home, probably his family and go down in history as something to forget. But then shortly after, the movie came out and I know he was as happy as I was to know his tears had been dried and he was rewarded for a superhuman effort that changed American culture..
Back in that year people still had optimism in their hearts that they could indeed be the catalist of widespread change. I applaud that. Now it seems light years away that such germaine, grassroots efforts can be achieved.
As a Woodstock era teen...it is still fresh in my mind.
Hello. Woodstock was a utopia of brotherly love that manifested reality for three days of cosmic time, that left all of us insane.
Many legendary performances at Woodstock happened in the middle of the night, I think Sly and the Who went on at like 4-5AM. And Hendrix didn't get to go on til Monday. That's unheard of, sounds like a hell of a weekend.
I fuckin wish i was at woodstock. Im waiting for our generation to get this.
Lmao we got the Travis Scott festival look what happen
@@Mr.Mia13 pure chaos but not woodstock chaos
Can Woodstock be made into a musical? would be nice to see Broadway's take on the iconic 3-days in 1969.
I was 13 when Woodstock happened. We do not live far from there. My Dad was curious about it. So he my girlfriend and I rode up there just to see the action. And it was packed roads crowded and just people all over. So pretty much of what you saw on tv and heard about was all true.
LOL Yeah we see the video
Equating Woodstock to "March for Our Lives" is absolutely asinine. The Woodstock crowd were anything but pro-statist, pro-authoritarian. The thought of advocating for anything even tangentially unconstitutional was anathema to them. If you've run out of material, then just end the show. Don't try to pad it out with nonsense.
America was a different country back then. Almost like night and day.
I wonder if Jimi is looking down from heaven...
The lady wrapped up in the blanket married the guy with her. I just read that, unfortunately, she passed away a month or two ago 😢
Crazy how Woodstock happened 53 years ago in the same America we in now lmao
I was there, I was 9 years old. First 2 days was great but Sunday rain and everything turn in mud. Didn't have enough Porta potties. Sunday I wanted to go home, but nobody could leave. Traffic jam city, people park everywhere.
How things have changed . The youth movement protesting about Americas involvement in Vietnam. Nowadays the youth movement is in agreement with everything the establishment is pursuing , including war in Ukraine 🇺🇦.
I was 16 yrs old in '69. This was a mindboggling time . . . with Bobby Kennedy and MLK being assassinated and the war still being escalated. I lived in New York (Yonkers) and was thinking of going, but they closed the NY State Thruway and that put the kybosh on that ! Truly my era . . . truly my passion, at that time ! Thanks for the memories !
My oldest brother went.He came back from concert and said I am going in the Navy
The overwhelming smell of patchouli tends to get that response
@@spence7985 this killed me oh my god
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Woodstock promotes acceptance of others and love. The navy was a known safe haven for homosexuals. Makes sense.
Beyond all measure, woodstock has the most memorable happening in our last 53 yrs of existence. Definition of EPIC!
Then 99 came and the name was destroyed
Hippies were actually quite a minority. The great majority of people had to work, even if you graduated from high school in ‘69 you had to get a job that summer and/or go to college in Sept.
People in their early 20’s and older were already working. Free love, who wanted to get pregnant from a stranger? Who wanted an std? They were a minority but their childhoods lasted longer than ours. But Grace Slick and Go Ask Alice, how lucky those people were to see that, a rare piece of heaven on earth for a change.
you can be working and still go to woodstock. I was working going to college. I reason I did not go is the freeway was closed
My boyfriend and I both working just out of college and we hitch hiked up there. Left Sunday because we had to get back to work
@@lauracarstiou3505 I wasn't commenting on who could take a couple days off or go to Woodstock or do what you want on a weekend.
Anyone who was middle aged could do what you did too. Who doesn't have a weekend?
I was commenting on the lifestyle; communes, sitting in parks during the week, not have a car or a place to live, crashing at someone's place, sleeping outside, taking drugs during the day, following bands around the country.
In my opinion it was about freedom. A chance to get away from all the rules and regulations and let your hair down for a few days. They didn't go nuts like the establishment thought. They were civil, kind and generous. And peaceful. Could some of the planning been better? Sure. But the end result was a big success. By the way, I was 14 in August of '69 and not aware of the event until the documentary and album came out. And to this day, I am totally fascinated by the whole Woodstock story.
I DID go. I enjoyed myself. My dad forbade me but I was a Free Spirited Butterfly. I was up near the front stage. I got high the first time .I was 17
TH-cam sucks. Advertising longer than the documentry
🙏 RIP ✌ MICHAEL LANG JANUARY 2022
1969... Peace and Love.
One day of peace hasnt helped, one weekend really. Was it the drugs that made our generation loving and peaceful because as baby boomers we sure didnt carry it over into today nor teaching our children not to hate. Sad we thought we knew so much but we couldnt practice it all our lives as we see today.
Speak for yourself. I am forever grateful to have grown up during the time of love sex & rock roll. Yes, I did teach my children not to hate but have no idea if it was due to the times I grew up with? Times were so much simpler for us then versus today.
Great documentary, thank you! What an awesome time to have been alive.
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totally understand your point of view ... I was there w/ my family suggestion see the museam ... share the dream that 2023 could be better for these three generations during the pandenic that's been a chalange
What was such experience to those who were there but on tv radio so unreal to be in Australia for a12 year old just mind blowing loved it but still pumping it out so many bands I just then many bands to come
I was drafted in march 1969 and only remember the moon landing in August as the big event, i visited this site two years ago because its was always something i missed out on. Its sad in a way because anyone watching this that remembers must feel as i do…. a longing for a time when everthing was ahead but must accept that now its all behind
Out of all the guitar playing at Woodstock, it is clear that Alvin Lee's rendition of "going home" blowed all the other acts completely off the stage!😄😄
You must not have heard Jimmy
'by helicopter' I agree.
Actually, Woodstock could have changed everything. Actually, it changed nothing…😢
i was only 5yrs old then, I remember my mother talking to friends and her sister in German, how she wanted to be there so badly, but couldn't cause i was only 5.
The times were a changing and for a brief time for us in attendance was the center of the world. What a great time for just being. Being there was a taste of heaven on earth .
From gwyn and James Spokane Washington
99 was not Woodstock. 99 was a distorted echo of Woodstock..............void of heart and Soul.......... replaced by what everyone at Woodstock was vehemently opposed to......which was commercial and corporate malice, indifference and greed.
Take it from an old hippie....pay a visit to the site. The grounds and museum and cultural center are really fantastic...AND...you will feel that spirit again! Maybe the way we looked seems funny to people now....but you know what? WE WERE RIGHT!
Yes we were!
I wonder how many people went to Woodstock and grew up to be everything they used to stand against?
A time of desperation for a generation that had enough of loosing family members
friends to a war that was long over due to end. A time of expressing no more hatred
within people. This will never be duplicated the times where so different and the message
from the people was we had enough. But seams although the message of peace and love was very clear that it has been lost all over again.
Not everyone from that generation was as desperate and pathetic as you like to think. Many did not engage in the drug culture and the whining, self-pity, revolting and general loathing of authority that people like you like to portray. Most of the hatred you speak of was exhibited by the very morons out marching with their peace signs and pot. Some of us got on with our lives and didn't waste our time thinking peace and love would magically make everyone so sweet and solve all our problems. In the real world, ostracized by that pathetic generation, not everyone is peaceful and not everyone loves you. Real adults learn to deal with the good, the bad, and the ugly.
while I agree that things are not the same, I think it is important to consider the context of the times we are living in. In '69 there weren't corporate conglomerates that owned everything including media, there were no cell phones with ads and notifications constantly bombarding you. I'm not saying they were easy times but, it is much harder these days to achieve an event like this. So much more wealth disparity but also a lot more awareness (and disinformation) because of the internet. People arent being influenced by the same things which makes things feel imbalanced or scary maybe? Idk I'm high
I went to visit the concert site in 2010. Was only 2 years old in 1969. Something magical about that place.
WOW that's amazing 👏🤩 does it look the same when you visited? BTW I was born in 1965 🌷🐦
@@freespirit21newyork yes and no there's a museum built on the concert site. Two festivals held on the anniversary weekend every year. One in the woods on Yagurs farm the other down the road Hector's bar ...Hectorstock. small country town Bethel NY. The Catskills are magical.
@@freespirit21newyork The Field is not touched but they did put an Amphitheater and a museum in on top of hill. Very nice .You can walk the field and picnic but camping is not allowed . Cameras are everywhere . Hope that helps
@@mojojeinxs9960why is your age relevant?
It's a real shame Iron Butterfly didn't play, they were superb. The Guitar work was astounding, they were exellent live. I expect they really regreted not tripling their efforts to attend.
They were offered but turned it down
In England many of us had been into the great American bands for a couple of years now and had seen many - Canned Heat, Taj Mahal, Spirit, Love, Beefheart. Our own bands seen were Cream, Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd. We saw Woodstock on the big screen and free concerts in Hyde Park later in the year saw The Stones and Blind Faith. Grace's White Rabbit a tour de force. You can see from these pictures that they were just young people, not hippies. Magical years.
I wa8s seven years old at the time of Woodstock and can remember the Hippies in my neighborhood chilling out smoking weed wearing bellbottoms and donning red Gandhi dots on their foreheads there was a beautiful 15 year old girl Jessica who lived upstairs in my apartment in Islip NY she took me in and liked me hanging out with her and her friends when they would chill and relax and just enjoy the love of one another's company they were very excepting an loving of everyone and everything and very much close in contrast with the theme of Woodstock and what it stood for I feel as if I was there in spirt through my love and being accepted by these people who called Hippies so yeah I consider myself a left back Hippie always will be some say that the festival didn't change anything but in my humble opinion I most certainly did it has been the sole reason for many festivals to happen there after and I believe that the powers that be realized that Music is ultimately more powerful than anything in the world it the one thing they can't take away from us and that SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF THEM and in essence LOVE CONQUERS ALL let's hope and pray can all be safe and live well in the days and years to come cause this world needs more than can be said now stay well ❤️ Dr.K Ish
Watch Woodstock 69 and then 99. It blows my mind how much society deteriorated in just 30 years. We went from a loving, caring people to savages. This country is so screwed because we cannot count on our youth for anything.
I wish we could have another Woodstock.
IronWolf, I don't think there's enough peace and love left in the world to even try to attempt it today...
@@d.d.williams7143 yeah you're 110% right.
I wish I could rewind the decades and I can attend it as an adult as I was only 4 in 1969 🌷🐦
They tried with 99 😂 It was all about money and it showed in the end. Not only that but people and the music had no inspiration and meaning so it was more of a concert than a gathering and it drew in the wrong kind of people.
The organizers of the 99 Woodstock could've learned a thing or two from the original Woodstock
It was the same guy
@@bcox1123 lol
But a different audience and bands
Lousy drugs too
They were 🥴 drunk I think
@@samthunders3611 Some of the crowd was naturally rowdy. Putting jocks, hippies, ravers, metalheads, and rock fans all in one area was a recipe for disaster when the alcohol and drugs got involved. Just finished the Netflix documentary on it and holy crap what a horribly planned festival.
Michael lang was the organizer of ‘99
I think lang had good intentions he wanted to bring that feeling back.. I feel like the other organizers put there two cents in and made it all about making lots of $$$ it was more about that then music peace and love the music is great but yeah it was the fact people couldn’t bring their own water and food and it was scorching with no shade I’m sure it didn’t help at all times times and people have been turning to shit over time I’m a millennial but I notice people have become shittier
Woodstock was the album.....all thru the seventies when I started to come of age...it was nirvana, it was the rock throne room!
Todays kids, just fought FOR the Elite Establishment.
I took my older sister and two brothers because they were going to be shipped off to Nam and I wanted them to have an experience just in case.
Oh I was 16 YRS.OLD. and a half. Now I'm 70YRS.OLD. yeah yeah yeah yeah. I'm a old head.
Micheal Lang was a visionary. Irregardless of failures he pushed on. RIP Micheal. Lest we forget… Woodstock took place during a viral pandemic.
@@michaelshafts1400 irregardless vs. regardless: What’s the difference?
Regardless means without regard to or in spite of some specific circumstances (usually those that have just been or are about to be mentioned). Irregardless (yes, it’s a word) is a variant of regardless that’s typically used to mean the exact same thing. It’s got an extra negative element, the prefix ir-, so it’s often considered nonstandard.
I wasn't born until '68 , first watched Woodstock concert aged about 18 or 19 and have loved it ever since , it introduced music to me that still holds me today .
Yes I was born in 65 and glad I'm a flower child 🌷🐦
Truly sucks that this generation will never have a great concert with peace and music
nonstop wars nowadays
WAIT FOR IT ............. 👽👽
This generation will see the return of our lord Jesus Christ!!!!!
I loved hippies and I lived in Arkansas. I wanted to change the world because of Woodstock.
I’m 70 and am wondering, if there was a gathering today of a half a million, would it be as peaceful and crime free as Woodstock was? If not……why???
Great interview with Richie Havens and Arlo Guthrie. Both Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm (of The Band) give an entire different perspective in their respective bio-books. RIP Mike, Richie and Levon. From what I've read "The Band" was a "headliner" and lived in Woodstock, yet NONE of their performance was in the movie due to objections from Albert Grossman. He also objected to their (original) version of "The Weight" being used in the official Easy Rider soundtrack and was quite upset when he saw it used in the film. Grossman objected to his stable of artists "encouraging" drug use.
I was 8 when Woodstock hit the country ,my oldest brother wanted to go so bad but going from Louisiana to new York with no money i guess he gave up.
We need this kind of event today , with all the hate out there, it would be a refreshing smell to the stinch thats out here now.
70s 80s were the BEST EVER Music that will ever be around in HISTORY ... BEST Bands and Singers which will never be again in our time ...Still to this day we ALL listen to this Music even my children do that are grown up and on their own to this day
August 18th 2024 watching this, Would have been a trip attending this
Why didn't they keep having things like Woodstock every year???
R.I.P. Michael Lang
Great Documentary of this Powerful, enigmatic major Cultural Event - never to be Repeated. I was not Physically there, but was in mind and soul. My only critique is that Homage is paid to certain performers that were the Big Boys of their day. Others were catapulted into further stardom, i.e. Santana, Joe Cocker and Ten Years After. It is big shortcoming in the doc of NOT giving proper acclaim to Ten Years After. Their rendition of I'm Going Home for over 15 minutes, was one of the most powerful performances at Woodstock. No one even mentions TYA, even in passing. That is an atrocity of this film. Who could forget those terrific words of Alvin Lee when he announces the next tune: I'm Going Home.....by Helicopter". And then he sent that Gibson Guitar Flying for 15 minutes, carrying off a watermelon on his shoulder when they were done!! Iconic Moment of Woodstock.
I agree. The best band in Woodstock. ALVIN GENIUS. R.I.P.🍉
May some day sooner than later the love and peace of the message of Woodstock music festival be reignited again and remain in my lifetime. Too much hate being spewed by hate groups who use propaganda to spread their hateful rhetoric. Fascist thinking is not acceptable to a free loving country.